Big Web 2.0 Software Providers Like Google/Skype/Wordpress VERSUS Small Free Unknown Web 2.0 Projects

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at the moment non commercial web 2.0 activities and communities almost are taking place within big commercialised web portals. is there a need in the near future to change this, because advertisement technologies may improve. the lecture introduces a new free video codec for hd video content (http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/dirac/) and experience with an almost unknown streaming-server-client-software (http://live.polito.it/) already successful in use at the free radio station of tübingen for outside broadcasts in high quality over normal internet lines leading over in a discussion confronting web 2.0 software projects from big commercial companies and gpl licensed free projects from independent communities.